Twenty minutes after leaving his job at a Brooklyn hospital on Saturday night, 32-year-old Rayne Valentine was lying in the fetal position on the sidewalk. He’d been beaten and kicked by New York police officers, his hospital ID smeared with his own blood, he told The Daily Beast. Valentine, a […]

US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors By Jessica DiNapoli and Ross Kerber, Reuters. May 31, 2020 US Firms Shield CEO Pay As Pandemic Hits Workers, Investors2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/whpng-e1590953388840.png200px200px Above photo: Christopher Nassetta, the President and CEO of Hilton, participates in a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and tourism industry […]

NOLA Garbage Workers Form Union To Fightback By Mike Elk, Payday Report. May 30, 2020 NOLA Garbage Workers Form Union To Fightback2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/citywasteunion-777×437-e1590844853858.jpg200px200px Above photo: Fired garbage workers protests infront of New Orleans City Hall on May 18th. Chris Granger/NOLA.com. “We are digging in for a long fight,” says New Orleans striking […]

Health Care Workers Call On Labor Movement To Take Action May 30, 2020 Health Care Workers Call On Labor Movement To Take Action2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ed-dsc00563-1000×600-e1590849228563.jpg200px200px A group of socialist health care workers put forward a statement in solidarity with actions against police and racist violence, demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, […]

This weekend, temporary pay bumps for workers during the coronavirus pandemic are ending at companies across the country. In a normal world, high hazard pay might be the only way to stop employees from quitting en masse. But with tens of millions unemployed, workers quickly lost a lot of leverage. […]

The United Kingdom’s new track and tracing programme has officially been launched, with those who tested positive for COVID-19 now receiving messages asking for details about people they have recently been in contact with, to help identify new cases of the virus. Fears have been voiced by health officials that […]

Caravan Supports Workers And Fights U.S. Postal Service Privatization By Martha Alston, Peoples World. May 28, 2020 Caravan Supports Workers And Fights U.S. Postal Service Privatization2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/pjimage-7-3.jpg200px200px Above photo: The U.S. Postal Service is a significant force for employment equity in the United States, with high numbers of people of color and […]

A White House adviser has triggered a wave of memes and mockery online after referring to US labor force as “human capital stock,” drawing countless comparisons to the dystopian sci-fi flick Soylent Green (spoiler: it’s people). In calling to reopen the US economy amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in an […]

Thousands Of Essential Workers Are At Risk of Deportation By Maurizio Guerrero, In These Times. May 25, 2020 Thousands Of Essential Workers Are At Risk of Deportation2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/immigrant-farm-laborers-from-getty-images-e1590419131849.jpg200px200px Above photo: Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance as a machine is moved on April 27, […]

Hundreds Of Maquiladora Workers Dying After Back-To-Work Orders May 25, 2020 Hundreds Of Maquiladora Workers Dying After Back-To-Work Orders2020-05-252020-05-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/maquiladora-workers-strike-e1590421289365.jpg200px200px Above photo: Maquiladora Workers Strike from libcom.org. On Saturday, the health secretary of Northern Baja California announced that 432 of the 519 people who have officially died from the virus in […]

Restaurant Workers Mobilize In Right To Work States During COVID-19 By Clare Busch, Shadowproof. May 23, 2020 Restaurant Workers Mobilize In Right To Work States During COVID-192020-05-232020-05-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/restaurant-workers-stirke-usa-today-e1590261340989.jpg200px200px Above photo: Restaurant workers strike. USA Today. For the past eight years, Johnathan Bo-o has worked on and off in the service industry, starting as […]

Lockdowns are for the peons. Advertisement – story continues below Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has his workers and businesses are locked down for the foreseeable future.But the billionaire governor will not let the government imposed lockdown interfere with his own plans. Last week Pritzker also told CNN the citizens of […]

McDonald’s Workers Across The US Strike To Protest Coronavirus Working Conditions May 21, 2020 McDonald’s Workers Across The US Strike To Protest Coronavirus Working Conditions2020-05-212020-05-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/protesters-join-a-mcdonalds-worker-strike-for-protective-gear-as-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-continues-in-los-angeles-california.-by-lucy-nicholson-for-reuters.-e1590078190861.jpg200px200px Hundreds of McDonald’s workers in the US are protesting unsatisfactory working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, with some quitting and others decrying the risk they […]

The Rebirth Of A Logistic Workers’ Movement? By Flynn Murray, Dissent Magazine. May 20, 2020 The Rebirth Of A Logistic Workers’ Movement?2020-05-202020-05-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/1589553098upsfeature.jpg200px200px Above photo: A UPS driver in late April in Brooklyn, New York. John Lamparski/Getty Images. The history of rank-and-file organizing at UPS reveals the opportunities and challenges for a […]

Hundreds of McDonald’s workers in the US are protesting unsatisfactory working conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, with some quitting and others decrying the risk they say they’re being exposed to from Covid-19. Strikes took place in over 20 cities across the US, including Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Jose […]

Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE By Mike Ludwig, Truthout. May 17, 2020 Essential Sanitary Workers Strike For Hazard Pay And PPE2020-05-172020-05-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ppe1-e1589725714406.png200px200px Above photo: Rahman Brooks and other striking sanitation workers gather around a car at a picket line in New Orleans. The strikers are demanding higher wages […]

India 08:13 GMT 11.05.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): The Indian Government ihad announced in late April that it would run special point-to-point ‘Shramik’ trains to ferry the migrant labourers, tourists, students and stranded people due to the lockdown. According to the state governments, there are around 10 million stranded […]

Prison Labor Replaces Striking Garbage Workers In New Orleans By Mike Elk, Payday Report. May 10, 2020 Prison Labor Replaces Striking Garbage Workers In New Orleans2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/sanitation-e1589129307781.png200px200px On Wednesday, dozens of garbage workers, employed by the temp service People Ready, went on strike, demanding proper safety equipment. The workers, who make […]

Chris Koos is mayor of Normal, Illinois in Mclean County.There are 169,572 people in McLean County Illinois.There have been 112 cases of coronavirus in McLean County, Illinois and 3 coronavirus deaths this year. Chris Koos has the city of Normal shut down due to the coronavirus.Well, most of Normal anyway.Chris […]

For The Workers Of The World, The Pandemic Is Based On Inequality By Pasqualina Curcio, Resumen English. May 9, 2020 For The Workers Of The World, The Pandemic Is Based On Inequality2020-05-092020-05-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/a_9484-scaled-e1589033240764.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Bill Hackwell. It is not entirely true that COVID-19 does not distinguish between attacking and, […]